This document provides a list of 1001 books recommended to read before you die. It is organized by decade, with books from the 2000s at the top and working backwards to books from the 1900s at the bottom. Each entry includes the book title and author.
This document provides a list of 1001 books recommended to read before you die. It is organized by decade, with books from the 2000s at the top and working backwards to books from the 1900s at the bottom. Each entry includes the book title and author.
This document provides a list of 1001 books recommended to read before you die. It is organized by decade, with books from the 2000s at the top and working backwards to books from the 1900s at the bottom. Each entry includes the book title and author.
This document provides a list of 1001 books recommended to read before you die. It is organized by decade, with books from the 2000s at the top and working backwards to books from the 1900s at the bottom. Each entry includes the book title and author.
48. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk 1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 49. Life of Pi, Yann Martel 2. Saturday, Ian McEwan 50. The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa 3. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 51. An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma 4. Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee 52. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho 5. Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson 53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare 6. The Sea, John Banville 54. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 7. The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble 55. The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda 8. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 56. Under the Skin, Michel Faber 9. The Master, Colm Tóibín 57. Ignorance, Milan Kundera 10. Vanishing Point, David Markson 58. Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace 11. The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd 59. Celestial Harmonies, Péter Esterházy 12. Dining on Stones, Iain Sinclair 60. City of God, E.L. Doctorow 13. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 61. How the Dead Live, Will Self 14. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle 62. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 15. The Colour, Rose Tremain 63. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood 16. Thursbitch, Alan Garner 64. After the Quake, Haruki Marakami 17. The Light of Day, Graham Swift 65. Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande 18. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt 66. Super-Cannes, J.G. Ballard 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 67. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski Mark Haddon 68. Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates 20. Islands, Dan Sleigh 69. Pastoralia, George Saunders 21. Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee 22. London Orbital, Iain Sinclair 1900's 23. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry 24. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters 70. Timbuktu, Paul Auster 25. The Double, José Saramago 71. The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra 26. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer 72. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson 27. Unless, Carol Shields 73. As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakuli 28. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami 74. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy 29. The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor 75. Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb 30. That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern 76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie 31. In the Forest, Edna O'Brien 77. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee 32. Shroud, John Banville 78. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami 33. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 79. Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq 34. Youth, J.M. Coetzee 80. Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi 35. Dead Air, Iain Banks 81. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan 36. Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon 82. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks 37. The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster 83. All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom 38. Gabriel's Gift, Hanif Kureishi 84. The Talk of the Town, Ardal O'Hanlon 39. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 85. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters 40. Platform, Michael Houellebecq 86. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 41. Schooling, Heather McGowan 87. Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis 42. Atonement, Ian McEwan 88. Another World, Pat Barker 43. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 89. The Hours, Michael Cunningham 44. Don't Move, Margaret Mazzantini 90. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho 45. The Body Artist, Don DeLillo 91. Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon 46. Fury, Salman Rushdie 92. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 93. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden 144. The House of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd 94. Great Apes, Will Self 145. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood 95. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan 146. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald 96. Underworld, Don DeLillo 147. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 97. Jack Maggs, Peter Carey 148. Life is a Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar 98. The Life of Insects, Victor Pelevin 149. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch 99. American Pastoral, Philip Roth 150. A Heart So White, Javier Marias 100. The Untouchable, John Banville 151. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker 101. Silk, Alessandro Baricco 152. Indigo, Marina Warner 102. Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard 153. The Crow Road, Iain Banks 103. Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker 154. Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson 104. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels 155. Jazz, Toni Morrison 105. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker 156. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 106. Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse 157. Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Høeg 107. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 158. The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe 108. The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin 159. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates 109. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 160. The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín 110. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro 161. Asphodel, Hilda Doolittle 111. Movern Callar, Alan Warner 162. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan 112. The Information, Martin Amis 163. Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud 113. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie 164. Arcadia, Jim Crace 114. Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth 165. Wild Swans, Jung Chang 115. The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald 166. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 116. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink 167. Time's Arrow, Martin Amis 117. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 168. Mao II, Don DeLillo 118. Love's Work, Gillian Rose 169. Typical, Padgett Powell 119. The End of the Story, Lydia Davis 170. Regeneration, Pat Barker 120. Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster 171. Downriver, Iain Sinclair 121. The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst 172. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres 122. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq 173. Wise Children, Angela Carter 123. Land, Park Kyong-ni 174. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard 124. The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee 175. Amongst Women, John McGahern 125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami 176. Vineland, Thomas Pynchon 126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi 177. Vertigo, W.G. Sebald 127. City Sister Silver, Jàchym Topol 178. Stone Junction, Jim Dodge 128. How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman 179. The Music of Chance, Paul Auster 129. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 180. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien 130. Felicia's Journey, William Trevor 181. A Home at the End of the World, Michael 131. Disappearance, David Dabydeen Cunningham 132. The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm 182. Like Life, Lorrie Moore 133. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx 183. Possession, A.S. Byatt 134. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 184. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi 135. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 185. The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle 136. Looking for the Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy 186. A Disaffection, James Kelman 137. Operation Shylock, Philip Roth 187. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson 138. Complicity, Iain Banks 188. Moon Palace, Paul Auster 139. On Love, Alain de Botton 189. Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow 140. What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe 190. Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro 141. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 191. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai 142. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields 192. The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker 143. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides 193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway 194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago 244. Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard 195. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel 245. White Noise, Don DeLillo 196. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 246. Queer, William Burroughs 197. London Fields, Martin Amis 247. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd 198. The Book of Evidence, John Banville 248. Legend, David Gemmell 199. Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood 249. Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavi 200. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco 250. The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman 201. The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White 251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Jose 202. Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson Saramago 203. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie 252. The Lover, Marguerite Duras 204. The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst 253. Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard 205. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey 254. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 206. Libra, Don DeLillo 255. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter 207. The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks 256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 208. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga 257. Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker 209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams 258. Neuromancer, William Gibson 210. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas 259. Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes Adams 260. Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis 211. The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble 261. Shame, Salman Rushdie 212. The Afternoon of a Writer, Peter Handke 262. Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett 213. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy 263. Fools of Fortune, William Trevor 214. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson 264. La Brava, Elmore Leonard 215. The Pigeon, Patrick Suskind 265. Waterland, Graham Swift 216. The Child in Time, Ian McEwan 266. The Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee 217. Cigarettes, Harry Mathews 267. The Diary of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe 268. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek 219. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster 269. The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo Claus 220. World's End, T. Coraghessan Boyle 270. If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi 221. Enigma of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul 271. A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White 222. The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae 272. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 223. Beloved, Toni Morrison 273. Wittgenstein's Nephew, Thomas Bernhard 224. Anagrams, Lorrie Moore 274. A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro 225. Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 275. Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally 226. Marya, Joyce Carol Oates 276. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende 227. Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons 277. The Newton Letter, John Banville 228. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis 278. On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin 229. Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt 279. Concrete, Thomas Bernhard 230. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro 280. The Names, Don DeLillo 231. Extinction, Thomas Bernhard 281. Rabbit is Rich, John Updike 232. Foe, J.M. Coetzee 282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray 233. The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi 283. The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan 234. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel 284. July's People, Nadine Gordimer 235. The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann 285. Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin 236. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 286. Broken April, Ismail Kadare 237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson 287. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee 238. The Cider House Rules, John Irving 288. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 239. A Maggot, John Fowles 289. Rites of Passage, William Golding 240. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis 290. Rituals, Cees Nooteboom 241. Contact, Carl Sagan 291. Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 242. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 292. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard 243. Perfume, Patrick Suskind 293. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco 294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan 343. The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell Kundera 344. The Castle of Crossed Destines, Italo Calvino 295. Smiley's People, John Le Carre 345. Crash, J.G. Ballard 296. Shikasta, Doris Lessing 346. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene 297. A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul 347. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon 298. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer 348. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch 299. The Safety Net, Heinrich Boll 349. Sula, Toni Morrison 300. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino 350. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino 301. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas 351. The Breast, Philip Roth Adams 352. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson 302. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan 353. G, John Berger 303. The World According to Garp, John Irving 354. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood 304. Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec 355. House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson 305. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch 356. In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul 306. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell 357. The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow 307. Yes, Thomas Bernhard 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. 308. The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt Thompson 309. In the Heart of the Country, J.M. Coetzee 359. Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll 310. The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter 360. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs 311. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin 361. Rabbit Redux, John Updike 312. The Shining, Stephen King 362. The Sea of Fertility, Yukio Mishima 313. Dispatches, Michael Herr 363. The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark 314. Petals of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 364. The Ogre, Michael Tournier 315. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 365. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison 316. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke 317. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke 367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou 318. Ratner's Star, Don DeLillo 368. Mercier et Camier, Samuel Becket 319. The Public Burning, Robert Coover 369. Troubles, J.G. Farrell 320. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 370. Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson 321. Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg 371. The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard 322. Amateurs, Donald Barthelme 372. Tent of Miracles, Jorge Amado 323. Patterns of Childhood, Christa Wolf 373. Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover 324. Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 374. Blind Man With a Pistol, Chester Hines 325. W, or the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec 375. Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 326. A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell 376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles 327. Grimus, Salman Rushdie 377. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis 328. The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme 378. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth 329. Fateless, Imre Kertesz 379. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan 380. Ada, Vladimir Nabokov 331. High Rise, J.G. Ballard 381. Them, Joyce Carol Oates 332. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow 382. A Void/Avoid, Georges Perec 333. Dead Babies, Martin Amis 383. Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen 334. Correction, Thomas Bernhard 384. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal 335. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow 385. The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch 336. The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle 386. Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen 337. Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee 387. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Boll 388. The First Circle, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre 389. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke 340. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick 341. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong 391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, 342. A Question of Power, Bessie Head Malcolm Lowry 392. The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz 440. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing 393. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan 441. Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges 394. A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines 442. Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien 395. The Quest for Christa T., Christa Wolf 443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani 396. Chocky, John Wyndham 444. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe 445. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger 398. The Cubs and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa 446. A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch 399. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García 447. Faces in the Water, Janet Frame Márquez 448. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem 400. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 449. Cat and Mouse, Günter Grass 401. Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson 450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark 402. The Joke, Milan Kundera 451. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 403. No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson 452. The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor 404. The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien 453. How It Is, Samuel Beckett 405. A Man Asleep, Georges Perec 454. Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino 406. The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West 455. The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien 407. Trawl, B.S. Johnson 456. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 408. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote 457. Rabbit, Run, John Updike 409. The Magus, John Fowles 458. Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary 410. The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras 459. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee 411. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys 460. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse 412. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth 461. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs 413. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon 462. The Tin Drum, Günter Grass 414. Things, Georges Perec 463. Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes 415. The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o 464. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow 416. August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien 465. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark 417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut 466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll 418. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery 467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote O’Connor 468. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 419. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector 469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Kenzaburo 420. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey Oe 421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme 470. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 422. Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson 471. The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon 423. Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe 472. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras 473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe 425. Herzog, Saul Bellow 474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico 426. V., Thomas Pynchon 475. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan 427. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 476. The End of the Road, John Barth 428. The Graduate, Charles Webb 477. The Once and Future King, T.H. White 429. Manon des Sources, Marcel Pagnol 478. The Bell, Iris Murdoch 430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré 479. Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet 431. The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark 480. Voss, Patrick White 432. Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess 481. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham 433. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 482. Blue Noon, Georges Bataille 434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr 483. Homo Faber, Max Frisch Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 484. On the Road, Jack Kerouac 435. The Collector, John Fowles 485. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov 436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey 486. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak 437. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess 487. The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber 438. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov 488. Justine, Lawrence Durrell 439. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard 489. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin 490. The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon 541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon 491. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary Vestdijk 492. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow 542. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford 493. The Floating Opera, John Barth 543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge 494. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 544. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen 495. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith 545. Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier 496. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 546. The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren 497. A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 498. The Trusting and the Maimed, James Plunkett 548. All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani 499. The Quiet American, Graham Greene 549. Disobedience, Alberto Moravia 500. The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis 550. Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot 501. The Recognitions, William Gaddis 551. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene 502. The Ragazzi , Pier Paulo Pasolini 552. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton 503. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan 553. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann 504. I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch 554. The Victim, Saul Bellow 505. Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis 555. Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau 506. The Story of O, Pauline Réage 556. If This Is a Man, Primo Levi 507. A Ghost at Noon, Alberto Moravia 557. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry 508. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Italo Calvino 509. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch 559. The Plague, Albert Camus 510. The Go-Between , L.P. Hartley 560. Back, Henry Green 511. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler 561. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake 512. The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett 562. The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andri 513. Watt, Samuel Beckett 563. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 514. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis 564. Animal Farm, George Orwell 515. Junkie, William Burroughs 565. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck 516. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 566. The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford 517. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin 567. Loving, Henry Green 518. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming 568. Arcanum 17, André Breton 519. The Judge and His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt 569. Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi 520. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 570. The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham 521. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 571. Transit, Anna Seghers 522. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor 572. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges 523. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson 573. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow 524. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar 574. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 525. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett 575. Caught, Henry Green 526. Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham 576. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse 527. Foundation, Isaac Asimov 577. Embers, Sandor Marai 528. The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq 578. Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner 529. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 579. The Outsider, Albert Camus 530. The Rebel, Albert Camus 580. In Sicily, Elio Vittorini 531. Molloy, Samuel Beckett 581. The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien 532. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene 582. The Living and the Dead, Patrick White 533. The Abbot C, Georges Bataille 583. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton 534. The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz 584. Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf 535. The Third Man, Graham Greene 585. The Hamlet, William Faulkner 536. The 13 Clocks, James Thurber 586. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler 537. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 587. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway 538. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing 588. Native Son, Richard Wright 539. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov 589. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene 540. The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese 590. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati 591. Party Going, Henry Green 641. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West 592. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 642. Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers 593. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce 643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude 594. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien Stein 595. Coming Up for Air, George Orwell 644. Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain 596. Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood 645. A Day Off, Storm Jameson 597. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller 646. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil 598. Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys 647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song), Lewis Grassic Gibbon 599. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler 648. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand 600. After the Death of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Céline Warner 649. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson 650. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 602. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre 651. To the North, Elizabeth Bowen 603. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 652. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett 604. Cause for Alarm, Eric Ambler 653. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth 605. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene 654. The Waves, Virginia Woolf 606. U.S.A., John Dos Passos 655. The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett 607. Murphy, Samuel Beckett 656. Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham 608. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 657. The Apes of God, Wyndham Lewis 609. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 658. Her Privates We, Frederic Manning 610. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien 659. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh 611. The Years, Virginia Woolf 660. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett 612. In Parenthesis, David Jones 661. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico 613. The Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis 662. Passing, Nella Larsen 614. Out of Africa, Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) 663. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 615. To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway 664. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett 616. Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner 665. Living, Henry Green 617. Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley 666. The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia 618. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West 667. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria 619. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Remarque 620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell 668. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin 621. Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson 669. The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen 622. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner 670. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West 623. At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft 671. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner 624. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes 672. Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau 625. Independent People, Halldór Laxness 673. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe 626. Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti 674. Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille 627. The Last of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood 675. Orlando, Virginia Woolf 628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy 676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence 629. The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen 677. The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall 630. England Made Me, Graham Greene 678. The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis 631. Burmese Days, George Orwell 679. Quartet, Jean Rhys 632. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers 680. Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh 633. Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht 681. Quicksand, Nella Larsen 634. Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev 682. Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford 635. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain 683. Nadja, André Breton 636. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller 684. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse 637. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh 685. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust 638. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald 686. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 639. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse 687. Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson 640. Call it Sleep, Henry Roth 688. Amerika, Franz Kafka 689. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 739. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford 690. Blindness, Henry Green 740. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf 691. The Castle, Franz Kafka 741. Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham 692. The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek 742. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence 693. The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi 744. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki Pirandello 745. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel 695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie 746. Rosshalde, Herman Hesse 696. The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein 747. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs 697. Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos 748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert 698. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf Tressell 699. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 749. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence 700. The Counterfeiters, André Gide 750. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann 701. The Trial, Franz Kafka 751. The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens 702. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky 752. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton 703. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather 753. Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre 704. Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville 754. Howards End, E.M. Forster 705. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen 755. Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel 706. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann 756. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein 707. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin 757. Martin Eden, Jack London 708. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster 758. Strait is the Gate, André Gide 709. The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet 759. Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells 710. Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo 760. The Inferno, Henri Barbusse 711. Cane, Jean Toomer 761. A Room With a View, E.M. Forster 712. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley 762. The Iron Heel, Jack London 713. Amok, Stefan Zweig 763. The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett 714. The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield 764. The House on the Borderland, William Hope 715. The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings Hodgson 716. Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf 765. Mother, Maxim Gorky 717. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 766. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad 718. The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton 767. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair 768. Young Törless, Robert Musil 720. The Last Days of Humanity, Karl Kraus 769. The Forsyte Sage, John Galsworthy 721. Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence 770. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton 722. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis 771. Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann 723. Ulysses, James Joyce 772. Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster 724. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence 773. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad 725. Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley 774. Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe 726. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton 775. The Golden Bowl, Henry James 727. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis 776. The Ambassadors, Henry James 728. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence 777. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers 729. Night and Day, Virginia Woolf 778. The Immoralist, André Gide 730. Tarr, Wyndham Lewis 779. The Wings of the Dove , Henry James 731. The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West 780. Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad 732. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan 733. Summer, Edith Wharton Doyle 734. Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsen 782. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann 735. Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton 783. Kim, Rudyard Kipling 736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 784. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser 737. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse 785. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad 738. Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke 1800's 832. The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga 833. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James 786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Somerville and 834. Bouvard and Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert Ross 835. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace 787. The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane 836. Nana, Émile Zola 788. The Awakening, Kate Chopin 837. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 789. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 838. The Red Room, August Strindberg 790. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells 839. Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy 791. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells 840. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 792. What Maisie Knew, Henry James 841. Drunkard, Émile Zola 793. Fruits of the Earth, André Gide 842. Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev 794. Dracula, Bram Stoker 843. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot 795. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz 844. The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy 796. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells 845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert 797. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells 846. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 798. Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane 847. The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov 799. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy 848. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne 800. The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross 849. In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu 801. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 850. The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky 802. Born in Exile, George Gissing 851. Erewhon, Samuel Butler 803. Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith 852. Spring Torrent, Ivan Turgenev 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur 853. Middlemarch, George Eliot Conan Doyle 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found 805. News from Nowhere, William Morris There, Lewis Carroll 806. New Grub Street, George Gissing 855. King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev 807. Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf 856. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 857. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 858. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert 810. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy 859. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope 811. La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola 860. Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont 812. By the Open Sea, August Strindberg 861. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky 813. Hunger, Knut Hamsun 862. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins 814. The Master of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson 863. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 815. Pierre and Jean, Guy de Maupassant 864. Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola 816. Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés 865. The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope 817. The People of Hemsö, August Strindberg 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne 818. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy 867. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 819. She, H. Rider Haggard 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert 869. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens Louis Stevenson 870. Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu 821. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 871. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky 822. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson 872. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley 823. King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard 873. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 824. Germinal, Émile Zola 874. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 875. Silas Marner, George Eliot 826. Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant 876. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 827. Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater 877. On the Eve, Ivan Turgenev 828. Against the Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans 878. Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope 829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy 879. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot 830. A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant 880. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins 831. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 881. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne 882. Max Havelaar, Multatuli 930. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott 883. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 931. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 884. Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov 932. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen 885. Adam Bede, George Eliot 933. Persuasion, Jane Austen 886. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 934. Ormond, Maria Edgeworth 887. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell 935. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott 888. Hard Times, Charles Dickens 936. Emma, Jane Austen 889. Walden, Henry David Thoreau 937. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 890. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 938. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 891. Villette, Charlotte Brontë 939. The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth 892. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell 940. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 941. Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 894. The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne 942. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth 895. The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne 1700's 896. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville 943. Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin 897. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 944. The Nun, Denis Diderot 898. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 945. Camilla, Fanny Burney 899. Shirley, Charlotte Brontë 946. The Monk, M.G. Lewis 900. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell 947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang 901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë von Goethe 902. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 948. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe 903. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë 949. The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano 904. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams, William Godwin 905. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 951. Justine, Marquis de Sade 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 952. Vathek, William Beckford 907. La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas 953. The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade 908. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas 954. Cecilia, Fanny Burney 909. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe 955. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 910. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens 956. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 911. The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe 957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques 912. Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac Rousseau 913. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 958. Evelina, Fanny Burney 914. Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol 959. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang 915. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal von Goethe 916. The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe 960. Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett 917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 961. The Man of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie Charles Dickens 962. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne 918. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 963. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne 919. The Nose, Nikolay Gogol 964. The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith 920. Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac 965. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole 921. Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac 966. Émile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo 967. Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot 923. The Red and the Black, Stendhal 968. Julie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 924. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni 969. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson 925. Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper 970. Candide, Voltaire 926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified 971. The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox Sinner, James Hogg 972. Amelia, Henry Fielding 927. The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin 973. Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett 928. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin 974. Fanny Hill, John Cleland 929. The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott 975. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding 976. Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett 977. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson 978. Pamela, Samuel Richardson 979. Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot 980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift 981. Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding 982. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift 983. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift 984. Roxana, Daniel Defoe 985. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe 986. Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood 987. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 988. A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
989. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
990. The Princess of Clèves, Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 991. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan 992. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 993. The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe 994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, John Lyly 995. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Françoise Rabelais 996. The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous 997. The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius 998. Aithiopika, Heliodorus 999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe, Chariton 1000. Metamorphoses, Ovid 1001. Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus